Rail-tie.



-A. c. BANDLAND.

RAIL TIE.

APPLICATIDN FILED MAR. 3. I916.

1 ,21 8,592. Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

e INVENTOR ATTORNEY mlmuumm[W 1 ARTHUR C. CANDLAND, OF PROVO, UTAH.

RAIL-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 6, 1917.

Application filed March 3, 1916. Serial No. 82,011.

To all whom it may concern:

it known that I, An'rnnn C. CANDLAND, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Proro, in the count) of Utah and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bail-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to railway ties, and has for its object to provide a light weight metal tie of the channel type within which is carried a cushion block, and on which may be secured railway rails.

These and other objects which are apparent I accomplish with the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters and numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures, and as described in the specification forming a part of this application, and as pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings in which I have shown a substantial embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of the tie. Fig. 2 is a plan of one of the block holding portions of my tie after it is out from a sheet of metal and before it is bent into shape. Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the side pieces of the tie as cut from a sheet of metal and before it is bent into shape. Fig. 4; is the same piece after it is bent into shape for use. Fig. 5 is a plan view showing a modiflea-tion of the tie wherein the blockholding portions are to be used on the outside of the side pieces, and showing one of said block holding members in place thereon and with the flanges bent outwardly instead of inwardly as shown in Fig. 1.

To construct a light weight metallic tie of the channel shape, having the medial portion cut out and the sides bent toward each other and fastened to form soil pockets, I cut from a sheet of metal two rectangular pieces with T-shaped open cuts 1, in the sides, and bend them on the dotted lines as 1 shown in Fig. 2. I also out two side pieces from a sheet of metal and provide open cuts 1n one of the longer sides snnllar 1n shape to the cuts 1 in the other metal sheets, and

bend them on the dotted lines as shown in Fig. 3 to form the sides B of the tie, as shown in Fig. 1. The block holding mem bers A are then secured in spaced relation to each other with the open cuts 1 in alinement with the cuts in the sides B by bending the end portions of said sides B inwardly and upon the vertical edges of said members A. IVhen the said sides B are then fastened together by the rivets 2, the tie is complete, and consists of the block holding members A with the rail flange receiving cuts 1, forming the soil pockets a, which pockets when filled with ballast will prevent longitudinal and lateral displacement of tie. The flanges b of the sides B are contiguous and below the flanges 0 of the block holding members A. The flanges b and c are cut out adjacent the cuts 1 in order that the rail flanges may seat within the cuts 1. If it should be found desirable to place the members A on the outer side of the sides B of the tie the flanges b may be dispensed with, and the end portions of said sides B in that form arebent outwardly to engage the vertical edges of said members A, as shown in Fig. 5, which shows such modification. The present invention enables me to use lighter material in the sides B than has previously been used, and to assemble the ties on the road-bed. They may be shipped in nested knocked down condition and assembled by having to bend only the end portions of the sides B around the outer vertical edges of the members A, and as to whether the flanges b and 0 are turned inwardly or outwardly will depend on the form and character of the fastener used to secure the rails on the ties.

Having thus described my invention I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim 1. A. rail tie cut from sheet metal and consisting of duplicate parts which when bent into shape will form two block-holding flanged members; and two opposed side members to retain said block-holding members longitudinally spaced apart and to form soil pockets between the said first mentioned parts.

2. A rail tie cut from sheet metal and consisting of two pairs of duplicate members which .when bent into shape will form two block-holding flanged members, having open Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

